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EXAMINATION SPECIFICATIONS
English Language and Literature
Code No. 184
CLASS-IX
From the Academic Year 2012 - 13
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Note:
1. The total weightage assigned to Summative Assessment (SA I & II) is 60%. The total weightag assigned to
Formative Assessment (FA1, 2, 3, & 4) is 40%. Out of the 40% assigned to Formative Assessment, 10%
weightage is assigned to conversation skills (5% each in Term I&II) and 10% weightage to the Reading
Project (at least 1 Book is to be read in each term and the Project will carry a weightage of 5% in each term)
2. The Summative Assessment I and Summative Assessment II are for ninety marks each. Ten marks of
listening and speaking test will be added to the 80 marks SummativeAssessment paper ie 80+10=90
marks in each semester. The weighatge assigned to Summative Assessment I is 30% and the weightage
assigned to Summative Assessment II is 30%.
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The Grammar syllabus will include the following areas in class IX:
1. Tenses
2. Modals (have to/had to, must, should, need, ought to and their negative forms)
3. Use of passive voice
4. Subject - verb concord
5. Reporting
(i). Commands and requests
(ii). Statements
(iii). Questions
6. Clauses:
(i) Noun clauses
(ii) Adverb clauses of condition and time
(iii) Relative clauses
7. Determiners, and
8. Prepositions
Note: No separate marks are allotted for any of the grammar items listed above.
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Q 14 One out of two reference to context stanzas (based on poetry) followed by 3 questions to test local and
global comprehension of the set text.These passages would require effort on the part of students to
supply the responses. 3 Marks
Q15. Five out of six short answer type questions based on Beehive and Moments (three each) to test local
and global comprehension of theme and ideas (30-40 words each)- 2 marks each. 2x5=10 Marks
Q16. One out of two long answer type questions extrapolative in nature from Beehive and Moments.
(Upto 80 words) (One from each). 6 Marks
Novel/Long Reading Text 5+5=10 Marks
Q 17 Types of Questions:
Global questions on theme and plot involving interpretation and inference 5 Marks
Q 18 One out of two character sketches in 100 words 5Marks
Prescribed Books
1. Beehive - Textbook for Class IX Published by NCERT
2. Moments - Supplementary Reader for Class IX Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi
Novel/Long Reading Text
3. Gulliver's Travel - 2005 (unabridged edition) Jonathan Swift
4. Three Men in a Boat - 1889 (unabridged edition) Jerome K. Jerome
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iii. take up questions for discussion to encourage pupils to participate and to marshal their ideas and express
and defend their views, and
iv. use the scale of assessment for conversation skills to test the students for continuous assessment.
Besides measuring attainment, texts serve the dual purpose of diagnosing mistakes and areas of non-learning. To
make evaluation a true index of learners' attainment, each language skill is to be assessed through a judicious mixture
of different types of questions. In addition to the summative tests, formative assessment is essential to measure the
level of attainment in the four language skills and the learners' communicative competence. Formative assessment
should be done through 'in class' activities throughout the year.
Reading Section:
Reading for comprehension, critical evaluation, inference and analysis is a skill to be tested formatively as well as
summatively.
Writing Section:
All types of short and extended writing tasks will be dealt with in both I and II Term Summative as well as in
Formative Assessment.
Grammar:
Grammar items mentioned in the syllabus will be taught and assessed formatively over a period of time. There will
be no division of syllabus for Grammar in the summative assessments for the two terms.
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PROSE
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Note:
1. Formative Assessment is assessment 'for' learning. Thus schools may adapt the above break-up as per
their convenience.
2. All activities related to Formative Assessment such as language games, quizzes, projects, role plays,
dramatisation, script writing etc must be done as ' in school' activities. In case, a field survey or visit is taken
up, it must be under the direct supervision of the teacher.
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